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About Hybrid

HYBRID, from his real name MASSANGA MARCELIN JOWANE is a Central African artist (singer, rapper, songwriter) born on the 22ndDecember 1994 in Bangui.

Young, he developed his attachment for music of all genders along with his elder sister WINNIE MASSANGA who is an artist herself (RUMBA music) based in France. Back home English was his favorite language which really influenced and is still influencing his music because majority of his songs are in English. He recorded his first song title You Don’t Have a Tiewhen he was 15 years old with the help of his sister, when he turned 18; he formed a band named TSboyz with some of his classmates with whom he did many great songs.

In 2013 he had to live his country headed to Ghana to pursue his education keeping in his heart his passion for music. From 2014 to 2017 he has been doing some great works among which we find bowlings for shows at the Rockstone office, stage sharing with Faniko the Beninese afropop artist and hit songs like DEJAVU, IM HUNGRY, ALAZOU, DéCHIRé, Ne Me Touche Pas and PADDLE for which he shot a video that was released on May 8th 2017.

He was among the contestants and finalist in the first edition of the Afrimusic song contest.

On the 4th August of the same year he released another killer music video on his hitsong Ya Ti Dou.

The struggle is real but the passion is stronger, that is what keeps him on the train. He has a lot more to offer so just watch out.

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Play Africa Music, a Ghana-based online music store has officially launched its service. A press conference held at Badu Lounge in Accra on Friday, February 23, 2018 had key MUSIGA and GHAMRO stakeholders as well as the media and some musicians in attendance.

Play Africa is an application which only promotes, stream and sell only African music. The application runs on Android and iOS. This application is one that will register every song that has ever been produced from every country in Africa.

Play Africa is a musical platform where people will have a renewable subscription monthly to be able to access songs from their favorite artist. In every African country people can pay for subscription from their local currency. Payment for subscriptions or purchase of a song can be done easily using all Mobile money platforms and all credit card systems.

On Play Africa people can buy albums or single tracks. Play Africa seeks to end piracy from the African continent and that every song purchase stays in a Play List on the APP. The Play Africa Playlist can also be downloaded on every computer so that songs can easily be synchronized and listen to everywhere.

Isaac Yeboah Filson, CEO of Play Africa Music in his address at the press conference says, “the music store seeks to hit about 5million subscribers across Africa within the next 5 years and raise revenue of about US $23 billion by 2030. For the past 5 years we’ve been working around to put this together to serve the Ghanaian and African market. And we are privileged to have succeeded in making this dream materialize. Play Africa Music (PAM) will be the biggest music network in Africa. We have singles selling as low as between 50 pesetas to 99 pesewas. There are also streaming options that cost as low as GHC 6. There are other mouthwatering packages that exist if you download the app. We have made it very feasible for music lovers to easily buy songs with the Mobile Money accounts, PayPal and Credit Cards.”

“Interestingly, with our pilot project, people seem to be buying old songs than even the new ones – which means that, we need to build a good library of songs and albums that have been released several years ago. Even though there are free download platforms, we can build our own network and generate more income for our music. Besides, we must stop putting out music for free, it has to be paid for. One good thing about our service is that, songs bought from our store will only be active and played from our app – they cannot be downloaded onto any third party material,” he added.

According to the CEO, Play Africa Music seeks to partner and produce songs and albums Artistes in order to produce quality and standard content for the music store. All countries to subscribe have the charge equivalence in their local currency.

Bessa Simons, 2 Vice President of MUSIGA and Veteran Musician who graced the occasion was very happy about the service. “Play Africa Music is the greatest thing to happen to Ghana Music Industry. I wish this had happened when I started doing Music actively to sell proper. All the same, it’s here at the right time. MUSIGA is in full support of this and will continue to support. I urge all Ghanaian Artistes to sign up. And the ones who have already signed up, I’m happy for them.

The app is available for all android users on the Google Play Store. It will soon be available on iOS for Apple gadget users.

Ghana’s punchline king, Kofi Kinaata has set another record with his love song ‘Sweetie Pie’ as the first audio slide of a Ghanaian Artiste on YouTube to hit 1 million views.

The love song which describes Kinaata’s perfect type of lady has received commendations from bigwigs in Ghana’s Showbiz as the most creative song ever. In Ghana, weddings and marriage ceremonies in Ghana are incomplete without ‘Sweetie Pie’ on their playlist.

Rap legend Okyeame Kwame has said that the rap verse of ‘Sweetie Pie’ is one of the most creative rap he’s ever heard.

Even though the song has no video yet, the management of the Artiste created an audio slide to complement the audio on YouTube and that audio slide has now reached a million views on the video blog.

“I am most grateful to my fans and everyone who watched the audio slide on YouTube. We’ve reached this far by your support and I’m forever indebted” Kofi Kinaata, the youngest Ghanaian Artiste to win ‘Best Song Writer of the year’ twice in a row said.

A close member of Kofi Kinaata’s management has hinted that a remix of ‘Sweetie Pie’ with one of Africa’s best Artistes and a world class video is in the the pipeline.

South Africa award-winning hip-hop rapper, AKA and hip-hop producer/artist Anatii are both working on a collaborative album titled “Be Careful What You Wish For” set to be released on July 28th. Off the album is a track titled“Holy Mountain”

About Artist

Anatii is a South Africa, is a South African hip hop record producer and musician.

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Anatii’s debut studio album ARTIIFACT was released on 09 September 2016. The album features South African acts AKA, Cassper Nyovest, Nasty C and Uhuru, as well as Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage, Somali-Canadian electronic duo Faarow and American singer Omarion.

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Konsciouz was born Ejike Augustine Ugwuzor in the late eighties as the third boy in a family of five (three boys and two girls), he hails from Okpoji Aku autonomous community of Aba south L.G.A of Abia state Nigeria.Konsciouz is a rapper, emcee, lyricist, spoken word poet and song writer. His style is fusion of […]

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